Description du projet
Une nouvelle étude sur la Rome antique fait le lien entre «fabrication» et «signification»
La fabrication des objets dans la Rome antique est un sujet fascinant, mais qui est généralement étudié comme un processus pratique ou technique. Les aspects culturels, esthétiques et moraux sont fort peu connus. Le projet FACERE, financé par le CER, va étudier ce que signifiait la fabrication pour les habitants de l’Empire romain. Plus précisément, il analysera le discours romain sur la fabrication: les textes littéraires (poésie et prose en grec et en latin) et les œuvres d’art visuel, telles que les peintures, les reliefs et les mosaïques, qui représentent des processus de fabrication et peuvent nous renseigner sur la façon dont les Romains pensaient, ressentaient et parlaient de ces processus. FACERE examinera également l’impact de la culture matérielle sur les spectateurs romains, la manière dont les objets étaient fabriqués et la façon dont leurs histoires de fabrication étaient présentées ou imaginées.
Objectif
How did the ancient Romans respond to the material world around them? This project, FACERE, proposes a new way of approaching this question. It studies ‘making’ – the processes by which the objects and buildings which surrounded Romans in their daily lives were produced. How things were made in ancient Rome is usually studied as a practical or technical process. However, making also has a wide range of culturally specific aesthetic and moral implications. FACERE breaks new ground by asking not how making was done, but what making meant to the inhabitants of the Roman empire. To answer this question, we analyse the Roman discourse of making: literary texts – poetry and prose in Greek and Latin – and visual art works, such as paintings, reliefs, and mosaics, which represent processes of making and can tell us how Romans thought, felt, and spoke about them. FACERE aims to achieve two key objectives.
First, we will write a new cultural history of ‘Roman making’, adding to our understanding of the technological, logistic, and economic dimensions the crucial new dimension of the cultural values involved in making, in particular its aesthetic and moral complexities. How did making relate to Roman notions about the environment? How did Roman writers and artists depict the ability and agency of different kinds of makers, and how does this relate to their gender, ethnicity, and social status? Were certain ways of making considered superior to others, and why?
Second, FACERE proposes a new way of investigating the impact of material culture on Roman viewers. How things were made, and how their stories of making were presented or imagined, was deeply relevant to what they meant to their ancient viewers, owners, and users. FACERE introduces the innovative analytical concept of ‘madeness’, which allows us to bring ‘making’ and ‘meaning’ together.
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Thème(s)
Régime de financement
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedInstitution d’accueil
9712CP Groningen
Pays-Bas